gaywrites:

About 80 percent of gay men and lesbians in China eventually marry people of the opposite sex, according to speculation by Zhang Beichuan, a professor at Qingdao University and an expert on gay and lesbian issues in China.

Beichuan says these people often have “unsuspecting straight spouses” or marry a fellow gay person of the opposite sex simply to please their parents. Another scholar, Xing Fei, estimates that 12 million gay men in China are married to straight women.

The Guardian’s Shanghai-based reporter Tania Branigan talked to Beichuan and Fei and met with numerous gay people who are in seemingly straight relationships, like Tom Wang, a 40-year-old software engineer who met his (lesbian) wife online, married a year later, and is now living together in a facade of a marriage “erected to satisfy their parents and protect their careers.”

According to Branigan, “homosexuality was illegal in China until 1997, and remains a sensitive issue, the country does not have the deep-rooted, vicious homophobia of many other places.” In fact, she says, the country  not only tolerated same-sex love among men, it “celebrated” it, though “such relationships supplemented marriage rather than replaced it. According to the tenets of traditional society, the worst kind of unfilial behaviour is failing to continue the family line. Even now, the pressure to marry and have children is intense.” 

Thoughts?

Thank goodnesss I’m not living in such culture anymore.